The How-To Heretic

A User's Guide to Life Beyond Religion

Whether you're just thinking about leaving your religion, or you're a dyed-in-the-wool decades-long atheist, your audio uncles Mark and Dan are here to help. With the aid of wise friends and experts in all sorts of fields, The How-To Heretic Podcast will guide you through the scary worlds of heathen living, and make sure you have fun in your new heretical life! We're here for you, friend; so kick off your shoes and join us!

046: The Lesser of Two Weevils

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This week! Uncle Mark thinks the law has gone to the birds, Uncle Doug welcomes our new overlords, and Mandisa Thomas of the Black Non Believers joins us to talk about what it’s like to be an Atheist in the most religious group in America. Come on in!

Animal court - Oppression expressions, weevils, rats, birds, pigs, medieval Europe, Catholic, violence, animal cruelty

Religious Liberty Task Force, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, church and state, 1st amendment 

https://blacknonbelievers.wordpress.com/
@BNonbelievers

045: Rosemary’s Buggy

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This week! Uncle Mark goes Dutch- Pennsylvania Dutch- Uncle Dan goes gaga for ALL the gods, and your uncles sneak you in the exit for a How-To rated R!

Meet the Amish, Anabaptist, Mennonite, anachronism, modernity

Polytheism in the Bible

How-To rated R, movies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0h4nRYZ8d0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49beLU0T49c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO2oH6HfNYo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ3qKyPxCP0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_29UtmWj6I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VILL_K7rOk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k70tlLetqqw

044: Let’s talk about Abortion

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This week! Uncle Dan buries a...well, a mystery sort of a thing, Uncle Doug introduces a pioneering new segment, and Dr. D rejoins us to help us figure out How-To think, talk and feel about abortion.

Sheela Na Gig - Graveyard of the gods, Celtic, fertility

Mormon Pioneer Day, handcart pioneers, Brigham Young, disaster

Abortion talk with Dr. D, reproduction, right to choose, women's health, reproductive freedom

Dr. D gave us some clarifying statistics, links and an interesting article on the medical ethics of abortion providers:

https://www.guttmacher.org/news-release/2017/abortion-common-experience-us-women-despite-dramatic-declines-rates
https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-united-states
https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/unintended-pregnancy-united-states
https://shoutyourabortion.com/
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1206253?query=TOC+-+ref3

043: Holding in the Sneeze

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This week! Uncle Mark shows us the limits of pyramid power, Uncle Dan shows us that half a wisdom is not a wisdom at all, and Uncle Doug proves that way too many people have more money than they should. 

The Nuwabian Nation, black supremacy, Pan-Africanism, cult, Dwight York, abuse

King Solomon, splitting the baby, violence

Gwyneth Paltrow, Goop - watch out for woo, jade egg, crystals 

 

042: All the Tiny Horses

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This week! Uncle Mark warns us about moon mind, Uncle Doug shows us how to apologize to modernize, and Uncle Dan tries to talk about weighty matters and the guys are having none of it. 

David Icke - Watch out for woo, lizard people, British royal family, hollow moon, absurd

Mormon apologetics, golden plates, seer stones, tapirs, extraordinary truth claims, absurd

How-To find Meaning, philosophy, improbability, Camus, Sisyphus, uncertainty